The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-01
HER LAST LETTERs.

thing was in readiness for the execution.
r. uER LAST IETTERs.
After the services last evening Mrs.
Druse remained up until about II 80 P. M,
when Deputy Sheriff Bartley Manion,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Waterman, the death
watch, induced her to lie down, and she
had about an hours quiet sleep. She
awakened with q start and upon arising
began to white letters az calmly as she had
at any time during her incarceration.
Theywere aa follows:
HERKIMgR, N. Y, Feb. IS, 1887.
To Sheriff Cool:
KIND S1R:-You have given me even
more privileges than / could have ex-
pected under the circumstances. l desire
to express my sincere thanks and graft.
tude for your kindness ahd your familys
for this. No doubt you will pass MANY q
pleasant hour, besides have clear con-
eclence that you have been kind to me
Ghen am gone. Good bye., 2.
asI Airs. RoIALANA DRusE. n
Mrs: Druse gave the following order to
Sheriff Cook. MIS- ..1.. - -
.l HERK1MER, N. Y, Feb. %, 1887,
KIND SlR:-If 1t is to be my sad fate to
die 30 soon, l therefore venture to make
this request to you, that as soon as life is
gone from my body tbat you will place it
in charge Of him who has been nv friend
to the last, Rev. G. W. Powell, and that
he alone as minister Of the gospel be
present at my death and o2iciate ut my
funeral If l am permitted to have q
Christian burial. Please grant me this re-.
quest in your own hand writing,
LsignedI w. MRs. r. DRuaE.
After writing Mrs. Druse laid down
again and fell into q dose. She was at
tackled with hysteria in violent form, and
1t required considerable effort upon the
part Of the watchers to soothe and calm
her. During the night she ate one of the
heartiest meals that sho had partaken OF
since she was prisoner. She had about
two hours Of rest after 4 A. NJ, but did not
sleep soundly at any time. 84
AFFECTED TO TEARS.
Ono Of her first visitors this morning
was Superintendent Irving Terry, of the
Onondaga, penitentiary, who brought a
farewell message from her daughter Mary,
who is hte prisoner, and bouquet oI
flowers. This visit had most exciting
effect upon Mrs. Druso. Her DEATH
watcher, Mrs. Waterman, who had main.
tanned herself admirably throughout, was
affected to tears, and for some minuteg all
were affected in tho same manner. Rev,
DR.. Powell visited Mrs. Druae about.0 A,
NJ, and did all in his power to calm her
and prepare her Tor the awful moment.
She Gto no breakfast, but partook Of etim-
ulating medicine prepared by the jail ply
sician, DR.. Gray. @i'
Her counsel, Il. Dwight Luce, made his
parting visit about 10 o'clock this morn.
ing, and this again upset her temporarily,
but she soon rallied and appeared as firm
and composed as any one. y =.g,I d.
After tho terrible blizzard OF Sunday the
morning opened bright, with tho mercury
ten degrees above zero. M iIr'
Every road leading into the town was
dotted with sleighs crowded with fur coat
ed men and not few women. Capt. John
Budlong and the thirty.Grst company
national guards, sixty-four muskets came
down from Mohawk at Q A. N, and were
quartered in tho Court House. Details
were posted about the jail to reinforce tho
deputies who were on duty since A. N.
about the exterior OF the jail. Tho crowd
in the village increased on the arrival of
every train, and in spite Of the extreme
cold, men, women and chrildren stood
about the streets surrounding tho jail
satisfied to look at the officials as they
passed in and out Of tho building to Sheriff
Cooks Office in the Court House, on the
opposite side OF the street. No one was
permitted to pass the line without dis.
playing his badge or authority as deputies.
The execution was witnessed by twenty.
five persons including tho officials.
| HER Last HOURS.
At 1880 o'clock the Sherif's jury was
ordered into the jul yard while Sheriff
Cook, under Sheriff Rice, and the depu.